Dr. Peter X Ma received his BS in Polymer Chemistry and MS in Polymer Materials from TsinghuaUniversity (Beijing, China), and Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from RutgersUniversity. He then did his postdoctoral research at MIT and HarvardMedicalSchool on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. In 1996, he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan. He is a tenured Full Professor with triple appointments in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences in the School of Dentistry, in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the College of Engineering, and in the Macromolecular Science and EngineeringCenter, also in the College of Engineering.